We’re thinking that in about six weeks, God willing and the creeks don’t rise, we’ll load up the SUV — 10 years old and counting — and head north, 250 miles straight as a crow flies, to our log cabin in the woods.…

This is about train travel, European-style. And an epiphany.
And while, in our biased view, trains are a fascinating topic at any time, today’s ruminations were prompted by a series of seemingly disparate events.…

Let’s suppose for a moment that, like some friends of ours, you’ve just signed up for an all-inclusive package tour to “Someplace Special.”
Maybe it’s a whistle stop romp through fertile tourist territory with one of the popular package tour operators — 10 cities in 10 days — through Britain or Germany or Spain.…